What Does Ezekiel 12:26 Mean?
The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
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King James Version
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,THE KEY
Here, the word is not an old message recalled but a matter arriving again.
THE MEANING
The word reaches you again: its return is itself a sign that the address is still unfolding. Speech here is a living matter that arrives in the present, ready to be heard.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that a word left unfulfilled has been abandoned or emptied of force; “Again” marks renewed address where final silence was assumed.
THE ROOT
דָּבָר
dābār
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
To speak or declare; the noun can mean a word, matter, or affair.
Dābār holds speech and matter together: what is spoken is also something that can take shape. The word that arrives again is not merely repeated sound; it is a matter still unfolding.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: word, matter, affair
דָּבָר
The same word can name both the utterance and the matter being addressed.
dibbēr: spoke, declared
דִּבֵּר
This verbal form shows the root as speech in action, linking the arriving word to the one who speaks.
THE PATTERN
The divine word is presented as an active arrival that continues to disclose and work.
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh, for the LORD uncovered himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.And for this reason we also thank God without leaving a gap. For when you took hold of the word of God that you heard from us, you received it not as the word of humankind, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who trust.THE THREAD
Therefore, say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD. None of my words shall be drawn out any more. The word that I have spoken shall be done, says the Lord GOD.Both verses repeat dābār (דָּבָר, word or matter): here the word comes again, and there the spoken word is done. The root links utterance to the matter that takes shape, so the arrival is also the beginning of fulfillment.
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